Orbits of the Deutsch Krone district
| German Krone – Virchow (Wałcz – Wierzchowo) |
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| Course book range : | DR 115n (1940) PKP line 416 |
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| Route length: | 37.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kreuz – Schloppe – Deutsch Krone (Krzyż – Człopa – Wałcz) |
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 Route just before the Kreuz station (Krzyż Wielkopolski)
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| Course book range : | DR 115m (1940) PKP line 412 |
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| Route length: | 60.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Deutsch Krone district , which originally belonged to the Prussian province of West Prussia , owned two small railways that were initially administered separately.
Kleinbahn Deutsch Krone – Virchow
The Deutsch Krone – Virchower Bahn connected the capital of the district with the Virchow station in the Pomeranian district of Dramburg on the state railway line Falkenburg - Kallies .
Due to the fact that the two districts belong to different provinces, two railway companies were founded for this purpose, which were uniformly administered by an administrative commission in German crown. The company Lenz & Co GmbH was responsible for the management .
The greater part of the 37 km long standard gauge small railway was built by the Deutsch Krone district and opened on December 5, 1898 from the western train station of the district town to the district border (20 km) north of the Hansfelde stop . The continuation to Virchow belonged to the Kleinbahn-AG Virchow-Deutsch-Kroner district boundary and was not put into operation until November 10, 1900. Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1992, the line later closed.
Kleinbahn Kreuz – Schloppe – Deutsch Krone
The Deutsch Krone district was financially able to build another line: the Kreuz – Schloppe – Deutsch Krone small railway . It connected the district town in a south-westerly direction with the Kreuz station on the Prussian Eastern Railway between Landsberg an der Warthe and Schneidemühl . From this important hub, which until 1919 belonged to the Filehne district in the province of Posen , there were fast connections to Berlin.
The standard gauge small railway was 60 km long and was opened on December 12, 1899 from Kreuz Kleinbahnhof to Schloppe , the most important intermediate station. The second part to Deutsch Krone Süd followed on December 2, 1904. The company Becker & Co., later the AG for the energy industry, ran the business .
The small railway line continued to be operated by the Polish State Railways (PKP) after 1945 . In 1988, however, passenger traffic on the Wałcz ( Deutsch Krone ) - Człopa ( Schloppe ) section, and in 1991 on the Człopa - Krzyż ( Kreuz ) section as well . In 1994 the Wałcz – Człopa section was closed, and traffic on the entire route has been idle since 2000.
Transfer to the Pomeranian State Railways
The Deutsch Krone district, which was assigned to the Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia province after the First World War , was attached to the Pomerania province in 1938 .
When on January 1, 1940 the public corporation Pommersche Landesbahnen combined all small railways in this province, the small railway Deutsch Krone – Virchow was added. More than a year later, the Kleinbahn Kreuz – Schloppe – Deutsch Krone was incorporated into the Landesbahn. Both - with a total length of almost 98 km - were subordinated to the State Railway Authority in Deutsch Krone.
literature
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. C3–4
- Siegfried Bufe (Ed.): Railways in West and East Prussia . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1986, ISBN 3-922138-24-1 , ( Ostdeutsche Eisenbahnen 1).
